From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun May 5 11:13:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fw.hel.fi.ssh.com (fw.hel.fi.ssh.com [193.64.193.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE5A37B428 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viikuna.hel.fi.ssh.com (viikuna.hel.fi.ssh.com [10.1.0.46]) by fw.hel.fi.ssh.com (SSH-1.27) with SMTP id g45ICQT02727 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 21:12:26 +0300 (EEST) Received: (qmail 10882 invoked from network); 5 May 2002 18:12:26 -0000 Received: from unknown ([10.1.34.13]) (envelope-sender <>) by viikuna.hel.fi.ssh.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with QMQP for <>; 5 May 2002 18:12:26 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:12:26 +0300 From: Mike Jackson To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hp omnibook 6000 Message-ID: <20020505211226.E14430@ssh.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20020505163800.A13793@ssh.com> <20020505175358.0E4523E14@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020505175358.0E4523E14@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andy Sparrow (spadger@best.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone here besides myself run FreeBSD 4.5 or later on an HP > > OmniBook 6000? > > Errm. Running 4.5-RC2 (with the original XFree 4.2 port) right now. > > Probably good enough for your purposes. > > > Are there any good websites with details and experiences > > from other users? > > > > Specifically, I need help or advice with: > > > > - full screen console mode > > You mean you want the console to fill the LCD screen to the edges, rather than > being a little window with text in it? That's a BIOS option - I forget which > one, but it's reasonably obvious. Nothing else will effect the size of the > text in the console, AFAIK. There is a way to set vesa modes at boot, but they do not work with the ati rage mobility card as far as I could tell. I guess they work with something, because they are there :) > Personally, I run with the "small text", because it's crisp at the "native" > resolution - when expanded to fill the LCD, it's kinda fuzzy. YMMV. You can get high resolution fonts and 1024x768 screen by using vidcontrol, if your video card is supported. I couldn't seem to find out which ones were and which ones weren't. example: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 -- Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message